# Deaths in September 1999
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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 1999.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## September 1999
### 1

* Hubert Bobo, 65, American gridiron football player.
* Boots Poffenberger, 84, American Major League Baseball player.
* S. Srinivasan, 58, Indian aeronautical engineer.
* W. Richard Stevens, 48, American author of computer science books.
* Doreen Valiente, 77, English wiccan, pancreatic cancer.

### 2

* Romolo Carboni, 88, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
* Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda, 77, Colombian anthropologist.
* Margherita Guarducci, 96, Italian archaeologist, classical scholar, and epigrapher.
* Philip Francis Murphy, 66, American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, cancer.
* Lajos Szűcs, 53, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter.

### 3

* Frans Cools, 81, Belgian cyclist.
* Paul Lucien Dessau, 89, British painter.
* Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed, 72, Sri Lankan diplomat and political figure.
* George Hunt, 83, American rower and Olympic gold medalist.
* Franz Pleyer, 88, Austrian-French football player.

### 4

* Emilio Aldecoa, 76, Spanish football player.
* Georg Gawliczek, 80, German football manager and player.
* Charles Lee, 75, English cricket player.
* Shlomo Morag, 73, Israeli professor of Hebrew.
* Orlando Pereira, 50, Brazilian football player and manager.
* Klement Slavický, 88, Czech composer of modern classical music.

### 5

* Alan Clark, 71, British Conservative politician, Member of Parliament (1974–1999), and military historian, brain cancer.
* Allen Funt, 84, American television personality (Candid Camera), stroke.
* Bryce Mackasey, 78, Canadian politician and ambassador to Portugal.
* Charles Onyeama, 82, Nigerian jurist and judge.
* Walther Reyer, 77, Austrian actor.
* Ivor Roberts, 74, British actor and a television continuity announcer.
* Leonid Sedov, 91, Soviet and Russian mathematician.
* Geraldo de Proença Sigaud, 89, Brazilian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Katie Webster, 63, American boogie-woogie pianist, heart failure.

### 6

* Arnold Fishkind, 80, American jazz bassist.
* René Lecavalier, 81, Canadian French-language radio show host and sportscaster.
* Steve Little, 43, American football player.
* Tamás Mendelényi, 63, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion.

### 7

* Thierry Claveyrolat, 40, French road bicycle racer, suicide by gunshot.
* Hugo del Vecchio, 71, Argentine basketball player.
* Bjarne Iversen, 86, Norwegian cross-country skier.
* Robert Simon, 49, American outlaw biker and convicted murderer, beaten.
* E.G. van de Stadt, 89, Dutch yacht designer.

### 8

* Birgit Cullberg, 91, Swedish choreographer.
* Mark Gardner, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Lagumot Harris, 60, President of the Republic of Nauru.
* Brian Hildebrand, 37, American professional wrestler, wrestling manager and referee, stomach and bowel cancer.
* Moondog, 83, American musician, composer, theoretician and poet, heart failure.
* Lev Razgon, 91, Soviet and Russian journalist, writer and human rights activist.
* Vladimir Samoylov, 75, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
* Herbert Stein, 83, American economist.
* Alan Willett, 52, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

### 9

* Abdel Latif Boghdadi, 81, Egyptian politician, air force officer and judge, cancer.
* Chili Bouchier, 89, English film actress.
* Jogesh Das, 72, Indian short-story writer and novelist.
* Arie de Vroet, 80, Dutch football player and manager.
* Tony Duquette, 85, American artist, Parkinson's disease.
* Catfish Hunter, 53, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, ALS.
* Mahmoud Karim, 83, Egyptian squash player.
* Marco Papa, 41, Italian motorcycle racer, traffic collision.
* Chan Parker, 74, American writer and wife of jazz musician Charlie Parker.
* Ruth Roman, 76, American actress.
* Fons van der Stee, 71, Dutch politician.

### 10

* Michèle Fabien, 54, Belgian writer and playwright, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Beau Jocque, 45, Louisiana French Creole zydeco musician and songwriter, heart failure.
* Alfredo Kraus, 71, Spanish tenor.
* Jean Messagier, 79, French painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet.
* M. C. Richards, 83, American poet, potter, and writer.
* Margaret Stuart, 65, New Zealand sprinter and Olympian.
* Cleveland Williams, 66, American heavyweight boxer, traffic collision.

### 11

* Mohammed Aly Fahmy, 78, Egyptian field marshal.
* Belkis Ayón, 32, Cuban printmaker, suicide by gunshot.
* Gonzalo Rodríguez Bongoll, 28, Uruguayan racing driver, racing accident.
* Johny Jaminet, 69, Luxembourgish football player.
* David Karp, 77, American novelist and television writer, pulmonary emphysema.
* Bobby Limb, 74, Australian entertainer and radio personality, cancer.
* Francisco José Pérez, 79, Spanish-Cuban chess player.
* Jacob Rabinow, 89, Engineer and inventor.
* Janet Adam Smith, 93, Scottish writer, editor and literary journalist.
* Momčilo Đujić, 92, Serbian Orthodox priest and Chetnik commander during World War II.

### 12

* Alfred Leo Abramowicz, 80, American prelate in the Roman Catholic Church.
* Laurette Luez, 71, American actress and model.
* Bill Quackenbush, 77, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins), pneumonia.
* Allen Stack, 71, American swimmer and Olympic champion.

### 13

* Goro Adachi, 86, Japanese ski jumper and Olympian.
* Roland Blanche, 55, French actor, heart attack.
* Benjamin Bloom, 86, American educational psychologist.
* Harry Crane, 85, American comedy writer.
* Miriam Davenport, 84, American painter and sculptor, cancer.
* Erik Diesen, 76, Norwegian revue writer and radio and television personality.
* Bill Lohrman, 86, American baseball player.
* Vladimir Pogačić, 79, Yugoslav film director.

### 14

* Joel Beck, 56, American artist and cartoonist, complications from alcoholism.
* Jehan Buhan, 87, French fencer, Olympic champion.
* Charles Crichton, 89, English film and television director (A Fish Called Wanda, The Lavender Hill Mob, Space: 1999).
* Miguel Angel Cuello, 53, Argentinian boxer.
* Chuck Higgins, 75, American saxophonist, lung cancer.

### 15

* Larry Gene Ashbrook, 47, American mass murderer (Wedgwood Baptist Church shooting), suicide by gunshot.
* Stewart Bovell, 92, Australian politician.
* Renato Constantino, 80, Filipino historian.
* Lila Leeds, 71, American film actress, heart attack.
* Michel Pinseau, 73, French architect.
* Jack Hardiman Scott, 79, British journalist and broadcaster.
* Petr Shelokhonov, 70, Russian actor, director, filmmaker and socialite.
* Bill Westwood, 73, British Anglican bishop.
* Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob, 76, Iranian scholar.

### 16

* Paul Gregory, 91, American baseball player.
* Viktar Hanchar, 42, Belarusian politician, kidnapped and murdered by the Lukashenko regime.
* Endre Rozsda, 85, Hungarian-French painter.
* Utaemon Ichikawa, 92, Japanese film actor.

### 17

* Leonard Carlitz, 91, American mathematician.
* Riccardo Cucciolla, 75, Italian actor and voice actor.
* Rajeshwar Dayal, 90, Indian diplomat and writer, stroke.
* Liane Collot d’Herbois, 91, British painter and painting therapist.
* Ellen Frank, 95, German film and television actress.
* Joan Gardner, 84, British actress.
* Hasrat Jaipuri, 77, Indian poet.
* Harold Johnson, 79, American basketball player.
* Gary Koshnitsky, 91, Australian chess master.
* François Müller, 72, Luxembourgish football player.
* Henri Storck, 92, Belgian author, filmmaker and documentarist.
* Rathvon M. Tompkins, 87, United States Marine Corps major general, stroke.
* Frankie Vaughan, 71, British singer, heart failure.

### 18

* Leo Amberg, 87, Swiss professional road bicycle racer.
* Philip N. Krasne, 94, American motion picture and television producer.
* Harold F. Kress, 86, American film editor.
* Gérard Landry, Argentinian actor.
* Noel Pope, 91, New Zealand rower and Olympian.
* Viktor Safronov, 81, Soviet astronomer.
* Leo Valiani, 90, Italian historian, politician and journalist.
* Leszek Wodzyński, 53, Polish hurdler and Olympian.

### 19

* Ed Cobb, 61, American musician, songwriter, and record producer, leukemia.
* Livio Isotti, 72, Italian road bicycle racer.
* Pavle Ivić, 74, Serbian Slavic dialectologist and phonologist.
* Bua Kitiyakara, 89, Thai actress and wife of prince Nakkhatra Mangala.
* Kjell Kristiansen, 74, Norwegian football player.

### 20

* Erland Almqvist, 87, Swedish sailor and Olympic silver medalist.
* Raisa Gorbacheva, 67, Russian activist, leukemia.
* Taheyya Kariokka, 84, Egyptian belly dancer and film actress, pneumonia.
* Robert Lebel, 93, Canadian ice hockey administrator.
* Karl Heinrich Menges, 91, German linguist.
* Willy Millowitsch, 90, German actor and director, heart failure.
* T. R. Rajakumari, 77, Indian film actress, singer and dancer.

### 21

* Georgia Louise Harris Brown, 81, American architect.
* Robert Galbraith Heath, 84, American psychiatrist.
* Benny Kalama, 83, American singer and arranger.
* Sander Thoenes, 30, Dutch journalist, shot in East Timor.

### 22

* Doris Allen, 63, American politician, colorectal cancer.
* Noriko Awaya, 92, Japanese soprano chanteuse and ryūkōka singer.
* Clive Jenkins, 73, British trade union leader.
* Tomoo Kudaka, 36, Japanese football player, stomach cancer.
* Paul Magès, 91, French inventor.
* Jeanine Rueff, 77, French composer and music educator.
* Sal Salvador, 73, American bebop jazz guitarist.
* George C. Scott, 71, American actor (Patton, Dr. Strangelove, The Hustler), Oscar winner (1971), abdominal aortic aneurysm.
* Chester Starr, 84, American historian.
* Vasili Trofimov, 80, Soviet football player.

### 23

* Ivan Goff, 89, Australian screenwriter, Alzheimer's disease.
* Sir Piers Jacob, 63, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong (1986 – 1991).
* Ri Jong-ok, 83, Premier of North Korea ( 1977 – 1984).
* Werner Vycichl, 90, Austro-Hungarian philologist, linguist, and academic.

### 24

* Robert Bend, 85, Canadian politician.
* Ester Boserup, 89, Danish and French economist.
* Rowena Mary Bruce, 80, English chess player.
* Judith Exner, 65, American socialite and mistress of John F. Kennedy, breast cancer.
* Jack Kiefer, 59, American golfer, cancer.
* Anneli Cahn Lax, 77, American mathematician.
* Tarmo Manni, 78, Finnish actor.
* Billy Pricer, 65, American gridiron football player.

### 25

* Marion Zimmer Bradley, 69, American author of fantasy and science fiction, heart attack.
* Teodor Kocerka, 72, Polish rower and Olympic medalist.
* Des O'Neil, 78, Australian politician, Deputy Premier of Western Australia. (1975 – 1980).
* Guido Pontecorvo, 91, Italian-Scottish geneticist.
* Anna Shchetinina, 91, Soviet merchant marine sailor.
* Ding Sheng, 85, Chinese general and politician.

### 26

* Enzo Carli, 89, Italian art historian and art critic.
* Jesse Dirkhising, 13, American teenager, drugging and positional asphyxia.
* Malky McDonald, 85, Scottish football player and manager.
* Bernadette O'Farrell, 75, Irish actress.
* Donald Sanders, 69, American lawyer and a key figure in the Watergate investigation, cancer.

### 27

* Philip Haddon-Cave, 74, British colonial administrator, heart attack.
* Herbert Heilpern, 80, Austrian-American association football executive.
* Billy Mould, 79, English footballer.
* Monique Rolland, 85, French film actress.
* Krishna Pal Singh, 77, Indian activist and politician.
* Grant Warwick, 77, professional ice hockey player.

### 28

* Franco Caracciolo, 79, Italian conductor.
* Arumugam Ponnu Rajah, 88, Singaporean judge, diplomat and politician.
* Escott Reid, 94, Canadian diplomat.
* Marilyn Silverstone, 70, English photojournalist and ordained buddhist nun, cancer.

### 29

* Arnold Earley, 66, American baseball player.
* Walter Joyce, 62, English football player and manager.
* Gé Korsten, 71, South African opera tenor and actor, suicide by gunshot.
* Yevhen Lapinsky, 57, Ukrainian volleyball player and Olympic champion.
* Gustavo Leigh, 79, Chilean general, cardiovascular ailments.
* Jean-Louis Millette, 64, Canadian French-speaking actor and writer.
* Edward William O'Rourke, 81, American Roman Catholic bishop.
* Armando Velasco, 81, Ecuadorian-Mexican actor.

### 30

* Avni Akyol, 68, Turkish politician, heart attack.
* Nikolay Annenkov, 100, Soviet and Russian actor.
* Edward C. Banfield, 82, American political scientist.
* Osvaldo Alfredo da Silva, 75, Brazilian football player.
* Tommy Gale, 65, American NASCAR race car driver.
* Thomas Holland, 91, English prelate of the Catholic Church.
* Bruce K. Holloway, 87, American Air Force general, heart failure.
* Dmitry Likhachov, 92, Russian medievalist, linguist and concentration camp survivor.
* John Merriman, 63, British long-distance runner and Olympian.
* Anna Mae Winburn, 86, American vocalist and jazz bandleader.